Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 40

The battle raged for several hours; the field was strown with slain, and the Moors, overcome by the multitude and fury of their foes, began to falter.

Who acts: battle · What happens: rage, strown, overcome, begin, falter, infuriate · To what, where: battle, field, Moors, foes

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 battle	det
2	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 began	nsubj
3	raged	rage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 battle	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raged	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 strown	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strown	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 strown	aux:pass
11	strown	strown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 battle	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 slain	case
13	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strown	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Moors	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Moors	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Moors	det
17	Moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 strown	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 overcome	punct
19	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Moors	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 multitude	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 multitude	det
22	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 overcome	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fury	cc
24	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 multitude	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 foes	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foes	nmod:poss
27	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fury	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 battle	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 falter	mark
31	falter	falter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rage	participle		the battle not said here	hour		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strown	past · passive	the battle not said here	the field		with slain; the Moors obl	tree rules
3	overcome	participle		the Moors not said here		by the multitude and fury of Moslems's foes	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	begin	past	the battle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	falter	to-infinitive	the battle not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	infuriate			Moslems's foes			nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 40

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 40